tests/README
author Vadim Gelfer <vadim.gelfer@gmail.com>
Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:33:46 -0700
changeset 2089 cb99c711c59f
parent 1933 7544700fd931
child 2207 8a2a7f7d9df6
permissions -rw-r--r--
make appendfile simpler so it does not break with revlogng on windows. it used to cache open files. this made revlogng break because it wants to rename files when splitting .i into .i/.d, but cannot rename or unlink open files on windows. new code is bit slower, but safe on linux and windows. proper fix for too many open/close of changelog/manifest belongs in different place. can get 10% speed improvement back.

A simple testing framework

To run the tests, do:

cd tests/
./run-tests

This finds all scripts in the test directory named test-* and executes
them. The scripts can be either shell scripts or Python. Each test is
run in a temporary directory that is removed when the test is complete.

A test-<x> succeeds if the script returns success and its output
matches test-<x>.out. If the new output doesn't match, it is stored in
test-<x>.err.

There are some tricky points here that you should be aware of when
writing tests:

- hg commit and hg up -m want user interaction

  for commit use -m "text"
  for hg up -m, set HGMERGE to something noninteractive (like true or merge)

- changeset hashes will change based on user and date which make
  things like hg history output change

  use commit -m "test" -u test -d "1000000 0"

- diff will show the current time

  use hg diff | sed "s/\(\(---\|+++\) [a-zA-Z0-9_/.-]*\).*/\1/" to strip
  dates